Activities
2025
Professor Barmeyer's Erasmus stay at the University of Urbino
As part of the Erasmus exchange between the University of Urbino (Italy) and the University of Passau, Professor Christoph Barmeyer was invited by Professor Claus Ehrhardt, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione, Studi Umanistici e Internazionali (DISCUI), to visit the University of Urbino Carlo-Bo, Italy, from 23 to 29 March 2025. The university was founded in 1506 and is one of the oldest universities in Europe. It is home to 10 faculties and is known for teaching and research in sports sciences, humanities, biology and computer science and has a large language centre. The university currently has 15,000 students.
Professor Barmeyer gave several lectures in German and French on intercultural topics to students on the Master's programme ‘Lingue Moderne e Interculturalità’.
During his stay, he not only had the opportunity to exchange ideas with the students and promote the University of Passau and the mutual Erasmus exchange programme, but also to talk to Italian and foreign colleagues. Further cooperation is planned with Claus Ehrhardt in the area of the intercultural Master's programme ‘Eurocampus’, which is offered once a year for students from different European universities at a partner university and offers an exceptional opportunity to combine intercultural content and experience.
The photos show Prof Ehrhardt and Prof Barmeyer, Prof Barmeyer and the International Office, Lucia Bartolucci, Giulia Rilli, Cristina Galluccio, the university, the old town and the Palazzo Ducale, a Renaissance palace that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Habilitation of Dr Hélène Langinier in Paris
On March 21, 2025, Professor Barmeyer was a member of an international habilitation committee at the Université Paris Est Marne-la Vallée (UPEM) of Dr Hélène Langinier (EM Strasbourg), who presented her research work in intercultural management in a cumulative manner. The habilitation thesis entitled ‘Construction de la relation interculturelle dans l'organisation: incidence du contexte sur la dynamique d'inclusion’ deals with the construction of intercultural relationships in organisations and examines in particular the influence of the context on the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. The work combines theoretical concepts from sociology, management research, intercultural communication and linguistics in an interdisciplinary analysis. Methodologically, an interpretative and multi-paradigmatic approach is pursued, which includes both qualitative case studies and theoretical considerations. The habilitation was supervised by Professor Sylvie Chevrier (UPEM). In addition to Professor Barmeyer, the members of the habilitation committee were Professor Françoise Chevalier (HEC Paris), Professor Jean-Francois Chanlat (Université Paris Dauphine), Professor Anne Bartel-Radic (Sciences Po Grenoble) and Professor Mette Zølner (Aarhus University). The photo shows the candidate and the commission members.
Intercultural Generation Café – Kick-off event
The aim of the intercultural generation café, which took place for the first time on March 13, 2025 at the House of Generations of the city of Passau, is to facilitate an intercultural exchange across generations. Around 20 people of different ages and from a wide range of countries of origin met to make plans for the activities and topics that an intercultural generation café should address.
The generation café is an initiative of the Welcome Centre (Eva Manetzgruber), the International Support Services (Barbara Bauersachs) and the Chair of Intercultural Communication (Dr. Martina Maletzky de García) with the aim of bringing international students and scientists together with citizens of Passau and promoting exchange.
The ‘Generationencafé’ will take place twice a month. On one Sunday a month there will be an intercultural breakfast, and on one Thursday a month there will be an evening get-together to discuss pre-arranged topics.
PD Dr. Martina Maletzky de García from the Chair of Intercultural Communication supports the project with regard to intercultural issues. Interested?
Further information is available here:
International Support Services
Barbara Bauersachs
E-Mail: allyoucando@uni-passau.de
Tel.: +49 851 509-1176
Intercultural Entrepreneurship Week in Passau with Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College and Azrieli College of Engineering, Jerusalem
At the invitation of Prof. Dr. Christoph Barmeyer and with the help of Erasmus funding, a group of students from Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College spent a week at the University of Passau to study intercultural entrepreneurship in theory and practice.
The visit was part of a joint Bachelor's course offered by the Chair of Intercultural Communication (Professor Christoph Barmeyer) and the Chair of Business Administration with a focus on Organisation, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship (Prof. Dr. Carolin Häussler) under the direction of Dr. Tali Blank, Dr. Olga Goncharova and Prof. Dr. Christoph Barmeyer. Students were introduced to the theories and concepts of interculturality, entrepreneurship and dilemma theory and were asked to develop a case study on an innovative entrepreneurial project based on empirical data, using their entrepreneurial and creative skills to analyse complex problems and develop innovative solutions. The course offered students the opportunity to work in bicultural groups on case studies of interesting entrepreneurial projects and to experience and solve the challenges of virtual and intercultural collaboration.
The week's programme also included a tour of the campus, the city of Passau and the INN.Kubator. Dr. Irit Kornblit, who is the business development manager of the Blender, Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College Innovation center, exchanged experience and knowledge with Dr. Maria Diekmann on Passau University entrepreneurial activities.
Dr. Gavriel David Pinto from the Azrieli College of Engineering, who also took part in the week with his students, gave a lecture entitled ‘Educating tomorrow's engineers’ on the importance of economic elements for the success of start-ups.
In addition to the professional exchange and the presentation of the final projects, the stay offered the opportunity for networking and intercultural understanding.
We would like to thank everyone involved, including the International Office, for their great commitment, which made this intercultural week of events possible.
A positive approach to intercultural management – lecture at the Catholic Foundation University of Applied Sciences Munich
On January 17, 2025, a lecture by PD Dr. Martina Maletzky de García and Theresa Hoffmann took place as part of the practical instructor's day entitled ‘Intercultural Management in Focus’. The two speakers introduced the audience, practitioners and students from the health sector to the basics of intercultural management and explained under which conditions cultural diversity can lead to synergies in the daily work of people in the health sector.
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